Gino Kenny (Dublin Mid West, People Before Profit Alliance) | Oireachtas source

Deputy Shortall touched on this but there was a really good article in The Irish Timestoday by Dr. David Joyce and Professor Eilish McAuliffe. They wrote about the SQ80, which I had never heard of before. It describes 80% end-to-end turnaround from symptom development to testing being carried out and contact tracing being completed. They argue that testing and tracing can be put right in six weeks. The science behind it makes sense, although some of it goes over people's heads. How confident are the witnesses and the HSE that the SQ80 can be done in four days? In response to Deputy Shortall, the witnesses have said it is probably more than four days. It is logistically difficult but Dr. Joyce and Professor McAuliffe argue it must be done or else the process is not fit for purpose.